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“Why Google and not the Mozilla Foundation?”

• steveklabnik 4y ago
  The Mozilla Foundation has had very very little to do with Rust. When members of the Rust team was employed by Mozilla, that was the Corporation, not the Foundation. And nowadays there’s even more separation between the two.
  • teddyh 4y ago
    > The Mozilla Foundation has had very very little to do with Rust. When members of the Rust team was employed by Mozilla, that was the Corporation, not the Foundation. I stand corrected. > And nowadays there’s even more separation between the two. That is almost entirely irrelevant. A project’s culture is about 90% the culture of its initial group. Even if Go(Lang) would be transferred and entirely sponsored by, say, the EFF or something, I would still not trust the language to be a good fit for the wider community.
    • pcwalton 4y ago
      > A project’s culture is about 90% the culture of its initial group. Eh, not in the case of Rust. Rust doesn't even use the MPL. The biggest Mozilla-ism I can think of that remains in the Rust project is, like, the use of "r+" or "r=me" for code reviews.